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Originally Posted by Cory
But you can only balance it with fringe cases. You can't split half the Michigan teams between Houston and Detroit. You'd have to pick teams that are on the border of right between the two locations. You are going to see a competitive difference between the two events, at least until more locales get districts to help them improve that way.
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The events may not be equally competitive, but at least teams will have an equal shot at winning a half-championship numbers-wise!
To balance event numbers, FIRST may have to send teams to the Championship that's further away from them. (Houston is actually a few hundred miles farther than Detroit from St. Louis, but I suspect that due to the large concentration of teams in the Midwest and Northeast, Missouri teams will be sent to Houston to avoid overloading the Detroit Championship.) So much for reducing travel costs.